An Impressive Second World War Military MBE and Later Royal Victorian Medal Long Service Group of Eleven to the Scots Guards and Later Yeomen of the Guard, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Members Breast Badge (Military), 2nd type, Royal Victorian medal in silver, unnamed as issued, 1939-45 Star medal, Africa Star medal with clasp 1st Army, Italy Star medal, Defence medal, War medal 1939-45, 1937 Coronation medal, 1953 Coronation medal, Army Meritorious Service medal GVIR, 2nd type, ‘2690288 W.O.II. F.A. FOLEY M.B.E. S G’DS’, Army Long Service medal GVIR, 1st type, with Regular Army Suspender, ‘2690288 W.O. CL.II. F.A. FOLEY S.GDS’, group court mounted for wearing, with a matching mounted miniature medal group..B.E., London Gazette 1st January 1944 – To be Additional Members of the Military Division of the said Most Excellent Order: No. 2690288 Regimental Sergeant Major Frederick Foley, Scots Guards.orrected in London Gazette 15th December 1944- For No. 2690288 Regimental Sergeant Major Frederick Foley, Scots Guards. Read No. 2690288 Regimental Sergeant Major Francis Albert Foley, Scots Guards.oyal Victorian medal (Silver), London Gazette 1st January 1969. Messenger Sergeant-Major Francis Albert FOLEY, M.B.E., Her Majesty’s Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard.rancis Albert Foley was born on 26th September 1904 and enlisted in the Scots Guards on 20th July 1921 aged 17. He served for 25 years and 10 days before being discharged on 30th July 1946. He became the 479th member of the Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard when he joined on 14th December 1948. He served for 27 years and died on 31st December 1990 at the age of 86.he Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard was created by Henry VII in 1485 after the battle of Bosworth and is the oldest of the Royal bodyguards and the oldest military corps in existence in Britain.